Word-Level vs Sentence-Level Suggestion

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Phone keyboard autocomplete (word-level suggestions) helps her; computer/tablet autocomplete (sentence-level completion) harms her. ‘On my phone there are suggestions on my keyboard, but on a computer and tablet, something is always trying to autocomplete my sentence and I find it very distracting.’ The granularity is everything: word-level prediction assists the thought; sentence-level completion hijacks it. The discovery followed from noticing she types fastest and most clearly with her thumbs — which is DATA, not preference. A cognitive accessibility pattern that most accessibility thinking has backwards.

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source: Fresh start planning and creative direction (2026-01-03) · extraction: auto (schema v3.1)